Quotes and Sayings About Tunes
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
-- A. E. HousmanSource : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics
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Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.
-- AaliyahSource : "Aaliyah Talks About Her Parents And Her Sensuality". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. April 4, 1997.
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We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.
-- Adora Svitak -
Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.
-- Adyashanti -
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I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.
-- Agnetha FaltskogSource : "Abba set for reunion as Agnetha admits, 'I have a dream'" by Alex Duval Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2011.
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Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.
-- Al Swearengen -
When you know who you truly are, you can live more freely and in tune with your karma.
-- Alan Finger -
Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.
-- Amit Ray -
I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.
-- Ari MarmellSource : Ari Marmell (2017). “The Conqueror's Shadow”, p.76, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
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There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.
-- Arthur Eddington -
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Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music.
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INNATE is God in human beings. INNATE is good in human beings. INNATE cannot be cheated, violated, or tricked. INNATE is always waiting, ready to communicate with you, and when INNATE is in contact you are in tune with the Infinite.
-- B. J. Palmer -
I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.
-- Ben Webster -
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
-- Bjork -
Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass.
-- Brian Acton -
I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.
-- Bryan Clay -
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You might measure your approach to a horse the same way as your approach to people because there are going to be some horses, like some people, who might be inclined to tune you out.
-- Buck Brannaman -
There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
-- Calvin HarrisSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The lips know only shallow tunes
-- Calvin MillerSource : Calvin Miller (1990). “A Symphony in Sand”, W Publishing Group
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
-- Cameron Mackintosh -
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I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
-- Cameron MonaghanSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch.
-- Carl Flesch -
A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.
-- Celestine Sibley -
I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
-- Charles Lamb -
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I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
-- Charley Pride -
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
-- Charlie Haden